[OT] Very interesting interview with Nat Friedman

http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/qna/0,289202,sid39_gci959322,00.html
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A very interesting interview with Nat Friedman... I couldn't
help but silently smile while reading "between the lines of
the actual wording":

* Nat manages to answer the very first question without even
   mentioning GNOME once. The question was: "What kinds of
   resources is Novell going to devote to Linux on the desktop?"

* The first time he mentions GNOME is in his 4th answer -- but
   he only lists it alongside "KDE, Mozilla, OpenOffice, Eclipse"
   as one of "five primary platforms".

* Then he seems to refer to the "relevantive" study concerning
   usability of KDE/WinXP (of course without giving any link or
   mentioning relevantive or KDE): "There was a study done
   recently with a group of 20 users who had never used a
   computer before. Ten were put at a Windows PC, 10 at a Linux
   PC and they were given a list of simple tasks like sending
   an e-mail, surfing to a Web page and the usability results
   were pretty much the same."

* Finally, he seems to appreciate KDE's new stage to become an
   "integrative desktop" and the effort Zack Rusin put into the
   "QtGTK" libary (also without giving a link or naming them):
   "We also need to focus on consistency in the community. If
   we say 'file or print', we want to see the same dialog box
   come up."

;-)
Kurt